John T. Murray
@lucidbard.bsky.social
He/him. Assoc. Professor of Games and Digital Media, UCF. Co-PI NSF Virtual Experience Research Accelerator. VR, AI, Interactive Narratives, Authoring Platforms. Co-author of Flash: Building the Interactive Web, Adventure Games: Playing the Outsider
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I'm co-teaching a DHSI workshop next summer with @lucidbard.bsky.social on programming for the digital humanities in the context of agentic AI and rapidly changing interfaces for computational work. Watch our awkward promo video + consider joining us: dhsi.org/2025/09/30/d... #dhmakes
DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI (DHSI 2026)
Allow functionality cookies for video to play Description In this team-taught workshop, we invite scholars to join us in exploring the relationship between generative AI and the future of programming pedagogy in the digital humanities and a frontline of what the MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI called “critical AI literacy.” Generative AI […]
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November 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I'm co-teaching a DHSI workshop next summer with @lucidbard.bsky.social on programming for the digital humanities in the context of agentic AI and rapidly changing interfaces for computational work. Watch our awkward promo video + consider joining us: dhsi.org/2025/09/30/d... #dhmakes
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While at #ELO25 I’m launching a new online project. Here is “No Time to Discourse”—a speculative atlas of future climate disaster. Millions of (non-AI) procedurally generated flash fiction disaster stories. And they all hit a little too close to home these days. notime.now
July 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
While at #ELO25 I’m launching a new online project. Here is “No Time to Discourse”—a speculative atlas of future climate disaster. Millions of (non-AI) procedurally generated flash fiction disaster stories. And they all hit a little too close to home these days. notime.now
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#elo25 starts today. T&T has SEVEN people participating: students @pdedgar30.bsky.social, Ricky Finch, and Anyssa Gonzalez; alum @videlais.bsky.social; incoming student Glenn Ritchey; and faculty @anasalter.bsky.social and @lucidbard.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
#elo25 starts today. T&T has SEVEN people participating: students @pdedgar30.bsky.social, Ricky Finch, and Anyssa Gonzalez; alum @videlais.bsky.social; incoming student Glenn Ritchey; and faculty @anasalter.bsky.social and @lucidbard.bsky.social
It was a great week! I really appreciate everyone's energy and thoughtful insights. Check out my prototype for how AI might be integrated into coding lessons at jtm.io/codepedagogy/
June 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It was a great week! I really appreciate everyone's energy and thoughtful insights. Check out my prototype for how AI might be integrated into coding lessons at jtm.io/codepedagogy/
I gave a presentation last August for a local UX meetup group (Downtown Orlando UX Meetup) that describes the newly coined "vibe coding" when I was still grappling with its implications for the future of programming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzkS...
Also featured is a preview of RealityFlow's AI.
Also featured is a preview of RealityFlow's AI.
Workshop: Designing for the Future: AI User Experience Design
YouTube video by Downtown Orlando UX Meetup
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March 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I gave a presentation last August for a local UX meetup group (Downtown Orlando UX Meetup) that describes the newly coined "vibe coding" when I was still grappling with its implications for the future of programming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzkS...
Also featured is a preview of RealityFlow's AI.
Also featured is a preview of RealityFlow's AI.
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#TBT to T&T faculty member @lucidbard.bsky.social's 2021 paper, "Transfordance: The Decentering Effect of Transformative Affordances in Virtual Reality in The Hollow Reach." Check it out! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Transfordance: The Decentering Effect of Transformative Affordances in Virtual Reality in The Hollow Reach
Virtual reality offers immense potential for subversive interactions to be the focus of stories. We argue that narrative framing is just as important as selecting meaningful user interactions in VR, a...
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March 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
#TBT to T&T faculty member @lucidbard.bsky.social's 2021 paper, "Transfordance: The Decentering Effect of Transformative Affordances in Virtual Reality in The Hollow Reach." Check it out! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Spring break. I am definitely not at a beach in South Florida. Probably.
March 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Spring break. I am definitely not at a beach in South Florida. Probably.
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Everything is worse, so here's an update on our resident baby owl.
March 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Everything is worse, so here's an update on our resident baby owl.
I always wanted to do this, though maybe not as artistically as some have.
This morning at Carleton we are experiencing extreme cold and it was under -20 degrees Fahrenheit, so naturally we played with boiling water.
February 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I always wanted to do this, though maybe not as artistically as some have.
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My absolute favorite thing from today's workshop slides (drawn from a local deployment of deepseek-r1:70b @lucidbard.bsky.social + I were testing) is this encounter about political history and also Python.
February 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
My absolute favorite thing from today's workshop slides (drawn from a local deployment of deepseek-r1:70b @lucidbard.bsky.social + I were testing) is this encounter about political history and also Python.
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Excited to work with @lucidbard.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social and Maria C. Reyes on The Hollow Reach during my undergraduate independent research.
January 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Excited to work with @lucidbard.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social and Maria C. Reyes on The Hollow Reach during my undergraduate independent research.
@anasalter.bsky.social connecting the lessons from Flash to the black box nature of ChatGPT and Google. Salter is calls on scholars to push back against the consequences of closed source tools, noting for example how AI summaries are obtuse about how facts are included. #mla2025
January 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
@anasalter.bsky.social connecting the lessons from Flash to the black box nature of ChatGPT and Google. Salter is calls on scholars to push back against the consequences of closed source tools, noting for example how AI summaries are obtuse about how facts are included. #mla2025
At the full session where @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social opened by bringing us up to date on discourse around Generative AI. Speakers balance hope with realism and providing advice on how academia can confront the challenges that are mounting.
January 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
At the full session where @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social opened by bringing us up to date on discourse around Generative AI. Speakers balance hope with realism and providing advice on how academia can confront the challenges that are mounting.
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Our second @eliterature.bsky.social session at #mla25 kicks off at 3:30: "Textual Futures + Generative AI." Join us in the Canal room - anastasiasalter.net/FutureTexts/ + mla.confex.com/mla/2025/mee...
Textual Futures and Generative AI
MLA 2025: Textual Futures
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January 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Our second @eliterature.bsky.social session at #mla25 kicks off at 3:30: "Textual Futures + Generative AI." Join us in the Canal room - anastasiasalter.net/FutureTexts/ + mla.confex.com/mla/2025/mee...
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I was fortunate to participate in the Doctoral Consortium track with two mentorship sessions from the very talented Mads Haahr and John Murray @lucidbard.bsky.social, and to receive insightful and actionable comments about my PhD work from each one's unique perspective. Heartfelt thank you! 🙏 ✨
December 8, 2024 at 12:56 PM
I was fortunate to participate in the Doctoral Consortium track with two mentorship sessions from the very talented Mads Haahr and John Murray @lucidbard.bsky.social, and to receive insightful and actionable comments about my PhD work from each one's unique perspective. Heartfelt thank you! 🙏 ✨
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Hi, #bsky! Here's an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal of critical writing on #digitalculture, #criticalAI, #e-literature, #gaming and all forms of digital creativity aka "digital futures of literature, theory, criticism, and the arts". You can check us out here: electronicbookreview.com
Front Page
digital futures of literature, theory, criticism, and the arts
electronicbookreview.com
December 6, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Hi, #bsky! Here's an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal of critical writing on #digitalculture, #criticalAI, #e-literature, #gaming and all forms of digital creativity aka "digital futures of literature, theory, criticism, and the arts". You can check us out here: electronicbookreview.com
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As our December issue is due tomorrow, you can check out some interesting articles from the last month, including an article by @berrydm.bsky.social and Mark Marino on ELIZA and Critical Code Studies 20 years after Marino's Critical Code Studies Manifesto. electronicbookreview.com/essay/readin...
Reading ELIZA: Critical Code Studies in Action
Critical Code Studies: 10 years later
Almost 20 years ago, Mark Marino’s Critical Code Studies manifesto in electronic book review called for scholars to explore the extra-functional significance of ...
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December 7, 2024 at 8:17 AM
As our December issue is due tomorrow, you can check out some interesting articles from the last month, including an article by @berrydm.bsky.social and Mark Marino on ELIZA and Critical Code Studies 20 years after Marino's Critical Code Studies Manifesto. electronicbookreview.com/essay/readin...
I'm Program Co-chair for this year's International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling. The conference combines perspectives from academics as well as practitioners. Check out the conference: www.facebook.com/ICIDS The full program here: icids2024.ardin.online/program/.
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December 4, 2024 at 6:58 PM
I'm Program Co-chair for this year's International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling. The conference combines perspectives from academics as well as practitioners. Check out the conference: www.facebook.com/ICIDS The full program here: icids2024.ardin.online/program/.
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A new paper highlighting the continuing issue of improving disabled access to VR games. Owlchemy led the way on this in the early days. Are there any great accessible examples of VR games that I failed to notice in the years since?
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November 30, 2024 at 10:56 PM
A new paper highlighting the continuing issue of improving disabled access to VR games. Owlchemy led the way on this in the early days. Are there any great accessible examples of VR games that I failed to notice in the years since?
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Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman's book on the Intellivision is out (in the MIT Press Platform Studies series I co-edit). It's an absolute monster, the result of thousands of interviews, and the definitive work on this weird machine.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254950...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254950...
Intellivision
The engaging story of Intellivision, an overlooked videogame system from the late 1970s and early 1980s whose fate was shaped by Mattel, Atari, and countless...
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November 21, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman's book on the Intellivision is out (in the MIT Press Platform Studies series I co-edit). It's an absolute monster, the result of thousands of interviews, and the definitive work on this weird machine.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254950...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254950...
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Our two businesses, @yarnspinner.dev and @secretlab.games are here now. Give us a follow?
October 21, 2024 at 7:02 AM
Our two businesses, @yarnspinner.dev and @secretlab.games are here now. Give us a follow?
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So I've just made this Starter Pack of #electronicliterature and digital narrative peeps: there's more of you out there that need adding, so please don't be shy in letting me know who you are [maybe you have suggestions @eliterature.bsky.social, @samplereality.bsky.social, @elikaortega.bsky.social]?
November 13, 2024 at 1:35 AM
So I've just made this Starter Pack of #electronicliterature and digital narrative peeps: there's more of you out there that need adding, so please don't be shy in letting me know who you are [maybe you have suggestions @eliterature.bsky.social, @samplereality.bsky.social, @elikaortega.bsky.social]?
Hi all! I am a professor who is focused on AI and VR, and think they both relate to interactive digital narratives and the future of computational literacy. I'm co-PI on an NSF grant which aims to increase diversity in VR research and am active in both ELO and ICIDS. I like to build and understand.
November 13, 2024 at 3:50 AM
Hi all! I am a professor who is focused on AI and VR, and think they both relate to interactive digital narratives and the future of computational literacy. I'm co-PI on an NSF grant which aims to increase diversity in VR research and am active in both ELO and ICIDS. I like to build and understand.
@melstanfill.bsky.social presents on AI pedagogies and examples from practice at #scms24. Connects the ways to use and think about AI critically to previous imaginations of how AI could exist and states that everyone is teaching AI now, intentionally or not
March 16, 2024 at 3:50 PM
@melstanfill.bsky.social presents on AI pedagogies and examples from practice at #scms24. Connects the ways to use and think about AI critically to previous imaginations of how AI could exist and states that everyone is teaching AI now, intentionally or not
Liz Losh gives a fantastic presentation on AI pedagogies at #scms24. Encouraging instructors to focus more on process and literacy to reduce assignment vulnerabilities.
March 16, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Liz Losh gives a fantastic presentation on AI pedagogies at #scms24. Encouraging instructors to focus more on process and literacy to reduce assignment vulnerabilities.